This 1899 collection of humorous sketches includes “Some Words on Royalty, ” “Actors, ” “Madame Tussaud’s, ” “Pretending, ” “An Infamous Brigade, ” “The Sea-Side in Winter, ” “Sign-Boards, ” “The Blight on the Music Halls, ” “Prangley Valley, ” “Fashion and Her Bicycle, ” “Going Back to School, ” “A Cloud of Pinafores, ” “At Covent Garden, ” and “The Case of Prometheus.”
عن المؤلف
Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (1872-1956) was an English essayist, satirist, caricaturist, and broadcaster, best known today for the novel Zuleika Dobson (1911). The London son of a Lithuanian-born grain merchant, he became a member of the artistic and literary circle that included Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley. He was knighted in 1939. George Bernard Shaw said of him, ‘The younger generation is knocking at the door; and as I open it there steps spritely in the incomparable Max.’
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